Finally got it to boot using MacStartup.img and mac_oldworld_rom4mb.rom from redundantrobot

Edit: That Image has 7.5.5 on it.

Edit Mark II: With that ROM it boots from the 8.1 install on a 500 meg HFS Standard image I use with Basilisk II. I never knew that in addition to stuffing on a ton of stuff useless to the Mac you're updating to 8.1, that updater also installed a FAT System no matter what. (Retroactive Nerf Cluebat to Apple!) I copied the contents of that image to the HFS+ GigaSheep image within SheepShaver and it works.

When I tried that old world ROM with my FAT 8.1 system installed to an HFS+ image using Basilisk II, it'd un-bless the system folder then flash the ? and sit there until I killed it.

Using any other ROM and that same 8.1 install, it'd do the welcome splash and die. If I held shift, it'd show the splash with Extensions Disabled, then die.

Looks like SheepShaver just does not like a FAT 8.1 install made with Basilisk II.

Anyway, booting now so I'll nuke and pave the GigaSheep image with a fresh install from within Sheep Shaver.

After 'obtaining' 9.0.4 International English, I did some testing VS different ROMs.

Tests with no mounted disk image, just the CD, set to boot from 9.0.4 CD.

Old World ROM = completes boot from the CD.
(I didn't try installing 9.0.4 with the Old World ROM.)

New World iMac ROM = completes boot from the CD.

New World ROM from ROM Update 1.0 = boots from CD until extensions begin to load then dies.

Tests with an HFV mounted, set to boot from 9.0.4 CD.

Old World ROM with HFV with 8.1 installed = completes boot from the CD.

New World iMac ROM with HFV with 8.1 installed = does the splash and die just like it does trying to boot from any 8.0 or 8.1 with this ROM.

Apparently it will not boot from CD with that New World ROM if any mounted volume has a blessed 8.0/8.1 System Folder, even when it's set to boot from a CD. It starts the boot from the CD, so why does it crash??? Tried this one a few times to be sure it wasn't a random crash.

New World iMac ROM with HFV that has 9.0.4 and HFV that has 8.1 (bootable with Old World ROM) both mounted. Boots from 9.0.4 and *doesn't die!* It didn't do any weirdness like un-blessing the 8.1 System Folder.

Same as above, Old World, put the 8.1 HFV first in the list and it boots normally. Would be nice to just be able to select which disk image to boot from or at least have up/down buttons to shift the boot one to the top.

Shall I repeat these tests using an 8.6 CD?

P.S. It won't copy and paste icons from Get Info on hard drives. Basilisk II can.

Hello. I'm new here and from Germany I had also same problems with crashes of the newest releases by booting.
Had tried different sdl.dlls. Today I tested the sdl.dll (Version unknown) with is in the Install-directory of Virtualbox. Newest Version 3.0.8. I copied this dll in the sheepshaver-directory.
With disabled JIT the Mac OS 9.0 boots complete. The Emulator seems useable. Some programs however cause a crash. For Example, I installed Opera Version 6.02 for PPC-Mac and by loading new sides in the Browser the Emulation died.

Trying to start with JIT enabled kills the Emulatur with a Runtime-Error.

Sorry if my English is not so good.

Greetings Andy (Germany/Bavaria)

Edit: Sometimes it runs yet with JIT-enabled. One Start-Trial of 5 succeeded.

Is your install clean? Did you install it yourself or did you download a pre-installed image? It would be best to start out with a clean install of a system from a universal MacOS 9 CD.

You have networking enabled. Which networking method did you choose? Networking with Slirp can be unstable. Please try to disable it during your trails. And perhaps Opera is not the best browser around. Have you tried Netscape 7? To me, that is the most stable browser.

The Problem: my gtk+2 was already auto-installed with a software called PIDGIN.

So, i tryed to uninstall it, and re-install it after but actually, i think it was a mistake, because, both PIDGIN and SHEEPSHAVER don't run...

So, can you help me? step by step, giving link to download gtk2+ good installation software, and latest udpate
and then , after this clean installation of this damned gtk2+, could you help me with sheepshaver and pidgin ( how can i do to install them without problem???)

I've tried all the suggestions and available downloads here, and I still get "Cannot map second Kernel Data area" 487". I execute Sheepshaver, and it goes straight to the error, no activity or display whatsoever between. I've tried all available compatibility modes with no luck. Since Sheepshaver ran fine on this very system under XP, and there have been no hardware changes, I feel it must be a Vista problem, since that's the only thing that's different.

Could someone please post a solution that even an idiot can understand, since this situation is rapidly making me feel like one. That error message might as well be in Greek for all it tells me.

Hi Cat7,
thanks a lot for your splendid work!
The files you included will be very helpful for beginners.
Perhaps you might include a keycodes file as well.
One would only need a Mac-OS image to get things going.
Those may be found searching the web for "macgeek417 uni.cc"
for a 7.52 system or "redundantrobot sheepshaver" for OS9.
Personally I still prefer my 7.6 and 8.6 systems in german.
Your release is running fine with 8.6 and a XP-pro 32bit
host sytstem, though I didn't see any difference to your 30.03.2009
release.

I've made some tests with Windows Vista, and I have some suggestions. Use the OldWorld ROM to boot, even in OS 9. This is the only way it doesn't crash for me. I decided to go on a whim and try that instead of re-installing everything for the thirtieth time. Well, it works. Just do that, use your OS 9 install CD, and you're good to go.

I've actually been able to boot with OS 9.0.4 and the regular ROM just fine, I think I may have disabled some other options as well. My wish is that the internet gets working. First an XP driver would be nice, because the only driver I can use on XP is the 2K driver, and AFAIK it causes SheepShaver to "quit unexpectedly", according to MS C++.